6. San Diego Strippers Sue Police Chief
The dancers of Cheetahs filed a civil suit in July against the city of San Diego and police chief Shelley Zimmerman. They are suing for damages due to emotional distress. A previous suit alleged their rights were violated after a March raid that involved them being lined up, photographed and asked for their Social Security numbers.

7. Condoms In Porn
Two bills mandating condom use in porn—Measure B in Los Angeles County and AB1576 in the California state legislature—made the rounds in their respective legislatures. AB1576 died in committee in August, but Measure B was upheld in appeals, despite the protests of many porn workers.

8. Tjisha Ball and Angelia Mangum
Two young Black strippers were murdered in Florida in September. Most reporting on the murders erased or stigmatized their sex work, noted Tits and Sass contributor Peechington Marie. Later on, she also wrote for Ebony about the whorephobic media coverage of serial killer Darren Vann’s Black sex worker victims Afrikka Hardy, Anith Jones, Teaira Batey, and Christine Williams. Black lives matter, and Black sex workers’ lives matter.

9. Oakland’s Nuisance Eviction Ordinance
In October, the Oakland City Council voted to expand a drug war related “nuisance eviction ordinance,” adding a clause that would allow for the speedy eviction of sex workers in both commercial and residential property without allowing them to contest the action. The language of the new law is broad enough to encourage the profiling of POC, trans, and low income residents; force sex workers out based on neighbor complaints; and discourage landlords from renting to those they suspect to be sex workers in the first place. In response to backlash from sex workers’ rights activists and allies, the City Council backpedaled and said they never intended to use the law against adult sex workers and that its purpose was to combat child trafficking. But their new framing of the policy is given the lie by the actual wording of the legislation.

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Thanks, Suzy. Posting on our page in English (www.facebook.com/redumbrella99.brasil). I hope your international review will include the festival of made-up stories about “child prostitution” we had around the World Cup in June/July in Brazil.